Sunday Express Skeleton 15Th December...
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What caught my eye was cost of 8 day holiday/trip at £195,000.
Hope they are all recovered ok.
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Hope they are all recovered ok.
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//I don’t think rising to the surface involves weights, DTC.//
The vessel has weights which can be jettisoned in the event of an emergency, providing it with sufficient buoyancy to surface without power. The problem is that the vessel is sealed from the outside and the occupants have no way of opening the hatch if they do get to the surface.
The vessel has weights which can be jettisoned in the event of an emergency, providing it with sufficient buoyancy to surface without power. The problem is that the vessel is sealed from the outside and the occupants have no way of opening the hatch if they do get to the surface.
anyone reminded of the Kursk disaster from 20 y ago?
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I hope they come out alive, regardless of how much money they have (the latter seemingly being a problem for some people).
It’s all relative, them spending a quarter of a million dollars each could be the equivalent of us spending a couple of hundred quid.
I used to be quite a technical diver, and about 20 years ago I dived on trimix to 100 metres, and getting down is piece of cake, but surfacing took 4 hours including a change from trimix to oxygen. I paid about £500 for this experience (which included a shed load of additional training and gradually deeper dives), because I wanted to try the experience of going that deep on tanks. So to criticise people who have the wherewithal to try something that 99.99999% of us will never have the opportunity to experience is, I feel, a little unfair.
Some people like to push boundaries. If we didn’t, we’d never have landed on the moon.
It’s all relative, them spending a quarter of a million dollars each could be the equivalent of us spending a couple of hundred quid.
I used to be quite a technical diver, and about 20 years ago I dived on trimix to 100 metres, and getting down is piece of cake, but surfacing took 4 hours including a change from trimix to oxygen. I paid about £500 for this experience (which included a shed load of additional training and gradually deeper dives), because I wanted to try the experience of going that deep on tanks. So to criticise people who have the wherewithal to try something that 99.99999% of us will never have the opportunity to experience is, I feel, a little unfair.
Some people like to push boundaries. If we didn’t, we’d never have landed on the moon.
Military submersibles do have an escape hatch that a rescue submersible can lock on to. However they do not operate at the depth this sub was attempting. No sealed rescue hatch. No underwater recovery especially as there are several bolts secured from the outside on their one and only access or egress hatch. Unless the position is located and they can be bought to the surface, very unlikely at depth, then I believe they are toast. I hope I am wrong.
